How much longer can the O/Os pay the high fuel prices? How can you be makeing any money? What would happen if the trucks just stopped moving? Do you think congress would take notice and maybe cap the fuel prices. There is talk about caping interest for home loans that are going belly up! I think something like that happened back in the late 70s??? I have a friend that payed out over $600 for fuel in one day for just one of his truck and he runs local not over the road. The oil companys are getting fatter by the minute off the back of the working public. Just me thinking out loudBe safe out there
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Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by hawkman01136, Feb 28, 2008.
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COngress couldn't do it ow if they wanted to. Bush wouldn't sign it and there isn't enough people to get the over ride.
You just wait. i think we are in for $4 gallon easy coming soon. At 5mpg that is. $.80 cents per mile just for fuel -
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well it will never happen on that scale but when enough companies go out of business they rates will HAVE to go up. Then the costs will finally be passed to the consumer. I'm not predicting a great recovery or anything, I doubt it will be much more then to just allow us to stay in business. Nobody cares how well we live as long as the food and hummers get delivered.
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It's hard to fathom that fuel prices have gone up so much and trucking fees hasn't. Certainly in other industry where the #1 raw materials have gone up a similar amount, the prices would've gone up by now. But when trucking fees gone up someday, prices for nearly everything else will have to go up too! Then truckers, finding it hard to live at the then higher prices would've had to increase fees again. Then prices for everything else will go up again... Can you say, spiraling inflation?
Gosh, I'm glad I'm not in charge of the economy right now. Wouldn't know what to do. Bernanke will soon have white hair too, not just his beard. -
YES, fuel is high. But all you guys have forgotten the most important part of the equation.......WE ARE IMPORTANT ot the movement of goods threw out the US and CANANDA.
Right now as we post, average for produce and other food goods through brokers (none the less) is around the $1.95 (PER MILE) RANGE AFTER FEES.
Now, of course those are average rates. ( not bad for average if you are not in a fuel guzzling small wiener truck)My projected fuel costs based on $4.00 per gallon Diesel is .59 cpm. how about you guys with those Petes 379 and KW W900's (and by the way that is actual,at posted highway speed on average.) Kinda gives new meaning to the old phrase of" All show, and NO go!!" Now doesn't it? -
Maybe a little bit of that fuel was still in the tank the next day and he spread the expenditure of that 600 dollars over a couple of days, not just one. -
may not have to haul much anyway. i know farmers may just scale back, rather than just put it all back in diesel fuel. i know i won't run a tractor much this year. fuel prices last year were tuff.
i would say the big companies are licking their lips. most o/o that go bust won't or probably can't buy back later, and the biggins will pick up the freight, i think that is why we don't hear much worry about fuel prices from the big movers. -
And, he is the only nutjob out there that is able to make Ron Paul look like a good choice for anything.
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